Member of Parliament (MP) for the Bantama Constituency, Daniel Okyem Aboagye, says the opposition DDC are making noise by petitioning Petitioning Auditor-General to audit the GHS280m COVID-19 cash.
The Minority in Parliament, has petitioned the Auditor-General to audit the disbursement of the COVID-19 funds.
The opposition lawmakers want the Auditor-General to specifically audit the money that went into the provision of food and water during the three-week lockdown period in the country.
The petition, signed by the Ranking Member of the Finance Committee, Mr Cassiel Ato Forson, and dated 3rd June 2020, said: “Honourable Auditor-General, the Minority Caucus in Parliament, with the responsibility of ensuring the judicious utilisation of state resources and in accordance with Section 16 of the Audit Service Act 2000 (ACT 584) calls on you to undertake a special audit into the expenditure on the GHS280.3 million that was allocated for the provisions of food, water and sanitation under the Coronavirus Alleviation programme (CAP).”
The government recently asked Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo to “strongly resist” a call on him by the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to audit the GHS280.3 million used in providing food and water for more than 400,000 vulnerable Ghanaians under the Coronavirus Alleviation Programme (CAP) during the three-week lockdown.
The biggest opposition party made the call on Monday, 1 June 2020 at a press conference where Forson said Ghanaians have been subjected to “unprecedented levels of profligacy, waste and corruption” under the Akufo-Addo government in the last three-and-a-half years”.
According to him, the government must be made to account for fund expended during the three-week lockdown.
“The low coverage and haphazard implementation of these interventions during the lockdown period, specifically the distribution of free hot meals and dry food to the vulnerable, as well as the supply of tankers of water to deprived households, give us cause for concern that these funds were not judiciously utilised by the government,” he added.
“Indeed, we have in our possession, an audio recording from Kumasi-based Silva FM, in which market women at Tafo Pankrono have confirmed that eggs meant for the vulnerable under the CAP have been diverted and sold on the market by persons associated with certain government functionaries in the area”, Mr Ato Forson said.
However, The Bantama PM, in a separate interview with Captain Smart on Angel TV/FM’s Anopa Bosuo, stated that the NDC is only making noise, adding that they claims have no substance.
‘’The NDC only wants to be heard with their petition but that’s is not any problem to we the NPP,’’
He added ‘’President Akufo-Addo, has always demonstrated that his administration recognizes and respect accountability, therefore, we are ever ready to account to the good people of Ghana,’’
Source: www.Ghgossip.com
